12 Angry Men Articles

  Henry Fonda on TCM: THE WRONG MAN, 12 ANGRY MEN, THE LADY EVE Schedule (PT) and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 AM Fort Apache (1948) An experienced cavalry officer tries to keep his new, by-the-books commander from triggering an Indian war. Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple. Dir: John Ford. BW-128 mins. 5:15 AM Firecreek (1968) A pacifist sheriff must use tougher [...]

  Henry Fonda, like James Stewart and Gary Cooper, was one of the prototypical "All-American" actors of the studio era. But if you believe that Fonda's generally one-dimensional characters represented the average American male, then my guess is that you've just landed on planet Earth and you've never met an American — or any human being, for that matter. Poor Henry Fonda was stuck playing [...]

Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors has chosen director-screenwriter Sidney Lumet, 80, as the next recipient of the Honorary Oscar. The award, in honor of Lumet's "brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture," will be presented at the 2005 Academy Awards ceremony on February 27. Lumet, who made his feature-film [...]